Hierarchical Keywording in Lightroom

While searching for a method to move my Lightroom library off of the PowerBook hard drive to an external one, I came across this tip for nested keywording from The Luminous Landscape. I’ve always typed out my tag hierarchy. Pictures of Megan, would be “Kids, Megan” for example. After finding this tip, I moved my Megan tag underneath the Kids tag, and now I no longer need to type in Kids, or forget to add it. Lightroom will handle that for me. As a test, I found a picture that I’d tagged “Birds, Ducks”, and dragged the Birds tag under Animals, and Ducks under Birds. As expected, the pictures now show up with the other Animals pictures. Most importantly, when the photo is exported as a JPEG, Lightroom adds all the tags in the hierarchy to the photo. I used PictureSync to confirm the EXIF data was set (still need to find a good context menu EXIF viewer plugin).